Two U.S. Military troopers and a civilian U.S. interpreter had been killed Saturday in an assault in Palmyra, Syria, the Pentagon mentioned.
Three different U.S. personnel had been wounded within the assault, which occurred throughout what the Pentagon described as a “key chief engagement” supporting ongoing counter-ISIS operations, in line with a press release posted on X by Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson.
“This assault is at the moment underneath energetic investigation,” Parnell mentioned. The names of the troopers and particulars about their models are being withheld till no less than 24 hours after next-of-kin notifications are full.
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth mentioned in a separate X publish that the one who carried out the assault was killed by U.S. accomplice forces. He didn’t present further particulars concerning the perpetrator of the forces concerned.
“The savage who perpetrated this assault was killed by accomplice forces,” Hegseth wrote, including that those that goal Individuals “will spend the remainder of your transient, anxious life realizing the US will hunt you, discover you, and ruthlessly kill you.”
The U.Okay.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stories that the attacker is a member of Syrian safety forces.
The U.S. navy has about 2,000 troops in Syria, primarily stationed within the northeast, the place they work with native safety to forestall the resurgence of the Islamic State. The U.S. and different nations have re-engaged with Damascus underneath new chief, Ahmed al-Sharaa since rebels ousted former President Bashar al-Assad.
